HERALD STAFF REPORT A free hospitality job and resource fair for laid-off Treasure Island employees will be held from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Shoreland Apartments lobby, 5454 S. Shore Dr. The event was organized by Ald. Leslie Hairston (5th), the Arise Chicago labor organization, the Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership nonprofit organization, Mac […]
By AARON GETTINGER Staff Writer The Committee on Housing and Real Estate today unanimously approved the intergovernmental use agreement between the Chicago Park District and the Obama Presidential Center (OPC) in Jackson Park and sent it the full City Council. The Council will consider the ordinance at its next meeting on Oct. 31. Department of […]
By AARON GETTINGER Staff Writer At Ald. Leslie Hairston’s meeting on the closing of Treasure Island Tuesday night, a wide array of issues emerged. Local residents asked University of Chicago representatives about a new tenant in the Hyde Park Shopping Center and an attorney asked laid-off employees to join her class action lawsuit. Plans were […]
By TIA CAROL JONES Contributing Writer Blues has deep roots on the South Side of Chicago, and the Blues Fest will pay homage to those roots Oct. 19 to 21 at the University of Chicago’s Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts. The three-day festival at the Center, 915 E. 60th St., will include […]
By TIA CAROL JONES Contributing Writer More than 40,000 people attended the 2018 Silver Room Block Party, and they brought an estimated $2 million to businesses in the Hyde Park community. That effort earned the Block Party and its creators, Eric Williams and Rob McKay, the first Economic Impact Award from Downtown Hyde Park Chicago. […]
By M.L. RANTALA Classical Music Critic The Lyric Opera Orchestra went on strike at 10 a.m. Tuesday, and by the end of the day Lyric Opera of Chicago announced that the second and third performances of the season have been cancelled. “La bohème,” which opened Lyric’s 64th season to positive reviews (see my review in […]
The Hyde Park location of Treasure Island Foods, 1526 E. 55th St., permanently closed on Monday, Oct. 8, four days short of its originally projected closing date of Oct. 12. By AARON GETTINGER Staff Writer Hyde Park residents’ reactions to the impending closure of Treasure Island Foods, 1526 E. 56th St., run the gamut some […]
By AARON GETTINGER Staff Writer The Jason Van Dyke conviction “is a watershed in the effort to establish police accountability and a regime of public safety in Chicago where people are treated equally,” said Jamie Kalven, the journalist who helped break the story in a February 2015 Slate magazine exposé. While the case was narrow […]
By TIA CAROL JONES Contributing Writer An expert from the University of Chicago Department of Public Policy predicted that J.B. Pritzker would be the next governor of Illinois, and that Kwame Raoul would win the attorney general’s race. Raymond Lodato, a Public Policy lecturer, also said the field of mayoral candidates should start shrinking, as […]
HERALD STAFF REPORT The RBC Race for the Kids benefiting patients at the Comer Children’s Hospital will affect road closures from 8:15 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 14, starting on the University of Chicago Main Quad and continuing on surrounding streets: ● Cottage Grove Avenue from 59th Street to the Midway Plaisance North […]